EXHIBITION “THE BOMBING OF BASQUE LITERATURE”
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The exhibition organized by the research group MHLI in collaboration with the Gernika Peace Museum, The Bombing of Basque Literature, will open next Tuesday, April the 25th, and it will run until December the 28th.
MHLI members Amaia Elizalde (professor and researcher at the UPV/EHU) and Ismael Manterola (professor and researcher at the UPV/EHU) have curated the exhibition which is part of the MemoriArtean project.
The MemoriArtean project, created by MHLI in collaboration with the Gernika Peace Museum, was born in 2022 with the aim of creating spaces of encounter and dialogues between art and memory through various activities. One of the results is the exhibition, but it will not be the only one. Indeed, several projects with the same objective will be organized in the coming years. If you are an artist and have an interesting proposal linked to this topic, please contact us so that we can take your idea into account for forthcoming exhibitions and projects (mu****@**********mo.net).
The exhibition The Bombing of Basque Literature, deals with censorship, an object of international debate in recent decades; more specifically, it addresses the post-Franco institutional censorship. In fact, the documents and works of art in the exhibition aim to make a memory of the silences and the silenced; by showing the magnitude of the harshness and repression that the Basque cultural expression suffered.
Therefore, the exhibition examines the continuation of Francoist censorship of Basque literature into the post-Franco censorship (1975-1983) that impacted adult, youth, and children’s literature, as well as translation and the publishing world. Censorship and repression of the Basque language and Basque literature neither ended with Franco’s death nor began with him. It was not limited to Spain, and it did not only affect books. We invite you to explore the restrictions placed on Basque literature and culture and to reflect more broadly on censorship. Though it may change, it is always present in human culture.
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To see the full poster and program follow the QR below.
